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Victory Nickel Inc. The Right Product. The Right Place. April 2014 The Right Time. Company Profile Victory Nickel NI:TSX Share Capital Structure Shares Outstanding ~572


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  • Victory Nickel Inc.

The Right Product. The Right Place. The Right Time.

April 2014

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Company Profile –Victory Nickel

NI:TSX – Share Capital Structure

Shares Outstanding ~572 million Fully Diluted Shares* ~742 million Market Capitalization (Apr. 11, 2014) $34.3 million Cash (as at Dec. 31, 2013) $1.4 million

Major Shareholders

  • Nuinsco Resources Ltd.

10.5%

  • A&M International

9.7%

  • Jien International

9.3%

  • Sea Shell Limited

8.5%

  • Management & Directors

2.0%

*~32 M options ($0.08 average exercise price); ~113 M warrants ($0.035 exercise price); ~$4 M convertible note ($0.10 conversion price)

Victory Silica Ltd.

(100%)

Victory Nickel Inc.

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Company History

From Nickel to Frac Sand

  • 2007: Victory Nickel created with 3 nickel

projects, including Minago in Manitoba

  • 2009: Feasibility study for Minago

Significant frac sand by-product value identified

  • 2011: Minago permitted for production
  • 2011-2012: Meaningful decline in nickel

prices

  • 2012: Victory Silica created to help unlock

value of frac sand at Minago

  • 2013: A viable, multi-phased frac sand

business emerged, independent of, yet complimentary to Minago

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  • Very strong market fundamentals for frac sand
  • Over 16% annual demand growth forecast for Canada
  • New frac sand story with extreme value
  • Near-term cash flow: plant commissioning well underway
  • Experienced management: frac sand development, operating and

marketing expertise

  • Strong peer group valuation & market performance
  • Large domestic resource: Minago a strategic asset

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Why Victory Silica?

Potential to become the largest supplier of the highest quality frac sand for delivery in Canada

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  • Experienced Management

Victory Silica Limited

René R. Galipeau /Chairman

35+ years mining experience with Hudson Bay, Breakwater Resources, Lac Minerals, Rio Algom. Current Vice-Chairman and CEO of Victory Nickel.

Ken Murdock /CEO & Director

Engineer with over 25 years experience in the aggregate/construction & oilfield materials industries. President IM&M Consulting (raw materials acquisition, waste disposal and manufacturing consultant to industrial mineral, glass and oilfield industries). Formerly with Canfrac Sands Ltd. (operations), United Industrial Services Ltd. (design, permitting, construction, operation and marketing of a silica sand project in Peace River) and Lafarge Cement. M.Eng., McGill University

  • D. Brent Lock /Vice-President, Marketing

Extensive marketing experience in the frac sand industry. Formerly Vice-President, Operations / Marketing & General Manager with Canfrac Sands Ltd. Prior to that, held a variety of operations and marketing positions in the oil & gas sector over the course of 26 years for companies including Gulf Canada Resources Ltd., Amerada Hess Canada Ltd. and Apache Canada.

Phillip Birmingham /General Manager, Seven Persons Frac Sand Facility

Diverse background, including seven years with the British Army's Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers and operations and management positions with Crane Canada, Allwest Compressor Services and most recently as General Manager with 3R Sand Ltd. (the previous operator of the Seven Persons frac sand facility) and Clean Earth Environmental Ltd.

Troy Bergen /Plant Manager, Seven Persons Frac Sand Facility

Operated the Seven Persons frac sand facility between 2008 and 2010 with previous owner 3R Sand Ltd. Prior to that, he was Operations Manager with Clean Earth Environmental Ltd. 5

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Shale Gas / Tight Oil Revolution

Frac Sand Boom

  • Unconventional ‘shale gas’ and ‘tight oil’ previously uneconomic to recover at a large

scale

  • Efficiency gains in horizontal drilling and the introduction of ‘fracking’ helped unlock

vast natural gas and oil resources

  • The rapid implementation of technology changed the North American energy

landscape, with a “sand boom” being a resulting factor

  • “Unconventional gas production reached 15% of worldwide production in 2010, and is

expected to rise to 80% by 2040.” (The Globe & Mail, August 21, 2013)

  • The Freedonia Group reports that frac sand consumption in North America increased

by 323% between 2007 and 2012, and is expected to increase by 73% by 2017

Frac sand is an effective way to participate in ‘unconventional’ oil and gas production growth

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  • r ‘fracking’ is a technique used in the development of oil

& gas formations

  • . Proppant

(such as frac sand) holds or ‘props’ the formation open, increases porosity, and increases

  • il/gas flow to the wellhead
  • must meet unique API specifications such as
  • ,

and for use in the oil & gas industry as a proppant

What is ‘Fracking’? Frac Sand?

Not all sand makes frac sand!

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Victory Silica’s Frac Sand

30/50 20/40

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  • North American Proppant Demand (million tons)

% Annual Growth Item 2007 2012 2017 2007-2012 2012-2017 Proppant Demand 6.98 29.55 51.20 33.5 11.6 By Country: U.S. 6.13 26.63 44.97 34.1 11.1 Canada 0.85 2.92 6.23 28.1 16.3 By Type: Sand 6.14 26.78 46.95 34.3 11.9 Ceramic 0.82 2.64 4.02 26.3 8.8 Other 0.02 0.14 0.23 43.9 10.6

Source: The Freedonia Group, Inc.

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Proppant / Frac Sand Market

Historical & Projected Demand

Double digit annual proppant demand growth expected with Canada leading the way

Oh, Canada!

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Cowen & Co. Frac Sand Price Index

Frac sand pricing up 4% in March 2014

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North American Shale Basins

Initial Supply Opportunities for Victory Silica

Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, B.C., North Dakota

Winnipeg Minago Wisconsin Mine Medicine Hat (Seven Persons)

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Canadian Market Opportunity

  • Double digit demand growth for frac sand in Canada
  • Robust natural gas production growth driven by West Coast Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)

terminal build-out over the coming years

  • Development of the Duvernay resource play as well as other ‘liquids-rich’ shale plays
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Established business relationships with energy service companies (i.e. pressure pumpers)

and exploration & production (E&P) companies

  • Securing supply of or holding rights to high-quality, permitted sand resources
  • Logistics agreements
  • Victory Silica Competitive Advantages
  • First mover advantage in processing highest quality Wisconsin sand in Canada
  • Minimizing handling of finished sand maintains product quality
  • Vertical integration to ensure supply of Wisconsin sand for end-users through the cycle
  • Superior location close to customers with significant finished product storage capacity
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Victory Silica Business Plan

Phased Approach – Clear Path for Growth

Phase 1: Market Entry

Seven Persons (dry) Plant:

processing infrastructure in Alberta (500 ktpa)

Ship contracted (wet) sand

from Wisconsin

Rapid payback on modest

capital investment

Strategic storage capacity

Phase 2: Vertical Integration

Wisconsin mine Joint Venture Security of highest quality sand

supply

Margin enhancement

Phase 3: Growth

Winnipeg (dry) Plant:

processing infrastructure in Manitoba (1,040 ktpa)

Site identified with favourable

logistics

Initially supplied from

Wisconsin

Minago

Longer-term upside Potential to process at

Winnipeg Plant

Currently looking at smaller

pit configuration to target frac sand only

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  • Processing purchased import wet sand

(concentrate) from Wisconsin

  • Seven Persons Plant
  • Fully-functioning sand plant on 22.4 acres
  • 22,000 tons product storage capacity
  • $4.0 M capex to take dry plant capacity to

500,000 tpa (complete)

  • First sales made: March, 2014
  • Commissioning of plant underway

Phase 1: Market Entry

Seven Persons Plant – Medicine Hat, Alberta

Phase 1 (Q1/2014) Working Capital US$4.3 million Annual Sales Capacity 500,000 tons Estimated Margin $25/ton

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Phase 1:

Milestones

  • Wisconsin sand purchase

agreement

  • Sand washing agreement
  • Wisconsin transload agreement
  • Rail agreement
  • Rail siding agreement
  • Railcar leasing agreement
  • Seven Persons trucking agreement
  • Equipment leasing agreements
  • Plant construction completed
  • First sand deliveries from Wisconsin

unloaded

  • Plant commissioning in progress
  • Product sales ongoing
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  • Enter into 50:50 JV with current Wisconsin sand

supplier to secure supply and enhance margins

  • JV partner’s contribution: Four permitted

properties with highest-quality Wisconsin sand

  • Resource estimate: 4 million tons per parcel
  • Victory Nickel’s contribution: Finance and build

frac sand wet plant at Wisconsin mine

  • Wet plant will be moveable to other mines

Phase 2: Vertical Integration

Wisconsin Mine Joint Venture

Phase 2 Capex US$4.4 million Annual Sales Capacity 500,000 tons Estimated Margin $>25/ton

Source: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey

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  • Phase 3: Growth

Winnipeg Processing Site

  • Build second processing facility in Winnipeg
  • Lease existing rail-supported industrial site
  • Construct new dry plant – 18 mos. from start
  • Consider logistics company participation
  • Supply from Wisconsin and area
  • Minago longer-term supply option

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Phase 3 Capex US$26.1 million Working Capital US$15.3 million Annual Sales Capacity 1,040,000 tons Estimated Margin $>25/ton

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Minago Development – 100-year+ frac sand potential Advanced custom processing discussions:

Potential to reach new markets Fixed production cost, contract-based, no capital cost

US processing facility:

Reach active Pennsylvania market

1,000,000 tons annual capacity; ideal location identified with available infrastructure, capital cost of ~ $32 million

Acquire and permit additional well located mines supplying high quality sand from Wisconsin/Minnesota Potential future consolidation of industry

Victory Silica

Future Growth / Consolidation Opportunities

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Victory Silica

Peer Group Performance

  • Preferred Sands/Winn Bay

$200 M acquisition Jan. 2012 (private)

  • US Silica

IPO: Raised $200 M Feb. 2012 ($1.9 B market cap)

  • Hi-Crush

IPO: Raised $225 M Aug. 2012 ($1.4 B market cap)

  • Emerge Energy Services

IPO: Raised $140 M May 2013 ($1.3 B market cap)

  • Athabasca Minerals

Canadian aggregates supplier ($55 M market cap)

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  • Calendar Year 2013

($US) Emerge Energy Services (NYSE: EMES) Hi-Crush Partners (NYSE: HCLP) US Silica Holdings (NYSE: SLCA) Victory Silica (Forecast) Phase 1,2

(2014)

Phase 3

(2016)

Phase 1,2,3 Cash Raised on IPO Capex Requirements $140 M $225 M $200 M $ 8.5 M $ 26.1 M $ 34.6 M Frac Sand Tons Sold 2,651,000 1,849,075 2,960,800 500,000 1,040,000 1,540,000

  • Adj. EBITDA
  • Adj. EBITDA Frac Sand Only

$85 M $69 M $69 M $69 M $161 M $116 M $14.5 M**1 $26 M $40.5 M** Forecast EBITDA / Ton Sold Actual EBITDA / Ton Sold $26.21 $37.41 $39.03 $29.00** $34.22* $25.00 $34.22* $26.30** $34.22* Market Cap (Mar 21, 2014) Enterprise Value (EV) $1,312 M $1,407 M $1,411 M $1,534 M $1,914 M $ 2,137 M $37 M

  • EV/EBITDA

16.5x 22.2x 13.3x 17.3x* 17.3x* 17.3x* Implied Enterprise Value @ EBITDA/ton estimated by Victory Silica @ known industry average EBITDA/ton ($34.22) $ 251 M $ 297 M $ 451 M $ 617 M $ 702 M $ 913 M Implied Price/Share @ EBITDA/ton estimated by Victory Silica @ known industry average EBITDA/ton ($34.22)

*average of Emerge, Hi-Crush, and US Silica **includes Phase 2 margin improvement

1 Before Nuinsco debt repayment

$ 0.44 $ 0.51 $ 0.78 $ 1.07 $ 1.22 $ 1.59

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Victory Silica

Relative and Implied Valuation

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Minago

Nickel / Frac Sand Co-Production

One of Canada’s undeveloped sulphide nickel resources Positive completed; for production

a significant value driver: US$2.90/lb Ni in co-product value

based on feasibility study

: Manitoba; road, rail, power access

11.2 million tonne frac sand resource, potential

Potential for smaller, less capital intensive pit configuration to target frac sand only

Valuable “ ” on nickel at $10.00/lb+

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  • Minago Project

Co-Product: Frac Sand

Feasibility Study Highlights

  • 11.2 million tonnes marketable frac

sand in pit footprint alone

  • Mined over first three years
  • Sales over 10 years
  • Mine gate margin per tonne ~$63
  • Annual net revenue ~$70 M
  • Processing cost/tonne = $6.50
  • Co-product value per pound of nickel

= $4.04 (US$3.68); optimized: $3.18 (US$2.90)

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  • Minago Project

Frac Sand Potential

Existing resource within current pit shell: 15 Mt Existing & proposed quarry leases: 75 Mt Proposed quarry exploration permits: 475 Mt Entire land package (mineral leases + mining claims): 2 Bt

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  • Initial sales made

March 2014, clear path forward

  • U.S. peers

U.S. Silica, Hi-Crush and Emerge Energy services; Canadian aggregates peer Athabasca Minerals

  • Minago a longer-term strategic asset;

Potential for smaller, less capital intensive pit configuration to target frac sand only

  • !"# currently investors have a ‘free call
  • ption’ on Minago’s advanced nickel sulphide project

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Victory Silica

Investment Summary

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  • Building

Canada’s Next Nickel Producer

Victory Nickel Inc.

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  • Company Profile

Nickel Projects

Four Advanced Sulphide Nickel Projects

Over one billion pounds of nickel in Measured and Indicated resources and 300 million pounds of Inferred resources, NI 43-101 compliant

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  • Minago Project

The Property

  • Well-located
  • Sulphide nickel deposit
  • Exceptional metallurgy
  • Open pit and underground mining

potential

  • Bankable feasibility study on open

pit only

  • Exceptional exploration upside

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  • Minago Project

Reserves and Production Upside

  • Nose Deposit open pit:

8.6-year mine life

  • Nose Deposit U/G (inferred

resource)

  • North Limb: Exploration target
  • Mineralization open to west,

north and at depth

  • Combined resources projected

mine life of <20 years

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  • Minago Project

Feasibility Study Optimization

Minago Sulphide Nickel Project: Economic Summary Comparison Base Case

  • Dec. 14, 20091

($million except % & yrs)

Base Case July 19, 20111,2

($million except % & yrs)

Undiscounted cash flow 917.7 1,418.4 NPV @ 8% 293.8 513.0 NPV @ 6% 402.6 669.3 NPV @ 4% 538.0 864.6 IRR 17.66% 22.4% Pre-Production Capital 593.0 585.1 Breakeven price $5.06 $4.28 Open Pit mine life 7 years 8.6 years

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1. Three-year trailing average US$ metal prices and exchange rate as of market close December 10, 2009: Ni: $11.19/lb; Cu: $2.91/lb; Pd: $322.4/oz; Pt: $1,353.98/oz; Au: $836.25/oz; Co: $27.73/lb; Ag: $14.25/oz; $Can/$US exchange rate: 1.097 2. Updated resource

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  • Minago Project

Cost Summary

C1 Cash Cost Per lb Nickel Feasibility Study After Optimization Net of Credits * US $1.94 (C$2.12) US $2.20 (C$2.41) Metal By-Product Credits US $0.72 (C$0.79) US $0.77 (C$0.85) Frac Sand By-Product Value US $3.68 (C$4.04) US $2.90 (C$3.18) Cash Cost per lb Nickel Before Credits US $6.34 (C$6.95) US $5.87 (C$6.44)

*Net C1 costs increase when metal production increases without corresponding frac sand increase (same size pit)

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René R. Galipeau /CEO & Director –Victory Nickel Inc.

30+ years mining experience with Hudson Bay, Breakwater Resources, Lac Minerals, Rio Algom

Steve Harapiak /President & COO –Victory Nickel Inc.

Engineer with 30+ years experience, including Hudson Bay, Noranda, Denison and CEO of Potash Corp. (Crown Corp.)

Alison Sutcliffe /VP Finance & CFO –Victory Nickel Inc.

CA with 20+ years experience, most recently with Dundee Corp.

Paul L. Jones /VP Exploration –Victory Nickel Inc.

Geologist and QP with 25+ years experience with more than 20 juniors

Sean Stokes /VP Corporate Affairs & Corporate Secretary –Victory Nickel Inc.

20+ years communications/business development/finance experience, incl. Tiberon Minerals, Liberty Minerals, Scandinavian Minerals

David Mchaina /VP Environment & Sustainable Development –Victory Nickel Inc.

Ph.D. with 20+ years experience, including Boliden, Westmin, Goldcorp

Victory Nickel

Management Team

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  • Victory Nickel

Qualified Independent Board

Cynthia Thomas /Chair

MBA, 20+ years international mining and project finance, former Director Mining Investment Banking – ScotiaMcLeod

René R. Galipeau /CEO & Director Peter R. Jones

Engineer, former CEO of Hudbay Minerals, 40+ years mining experience with Hudbay, Cominco, Cape Breton Development, Granduc Operating Co. and Adanac Molybdenum

Michael Anderson

Lawyer, nine years as General Counsel and Secretary with Denison Mines, previously a partner with Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, in- house counsel with John Labatt, General Counsel for Swift Canadian

Roland Horst

35 years mining experience as a CEO, banker, investment banker and geologist, current CEO of CBay Minerals 31

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  • Disclaimer

Some of the statements contained in the following material may be "forward-looking statements." All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that Victory Nickel believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "seek," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "expect," and "intend" and statements that an event or result "may," "will," "can," "should," "could," or "might" occur or be achieved and other similar expressions. These forward-looking statements reflect the current expectations or beliefs of Victory Nickel based on information currently available to Victory Nickel. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results of Victory Nickel to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements, and even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to,

  • r effects on Victory Nickel. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other

things, failure to successfully complete intended financings, capital and other costs varying significantly from estimates, production rates varying from estimates, changes in world copper and/or gold markets, changes in equity markets, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, equipment failure, unexpected geological conditions, imprecision in resource estimates, success of future development initiatives, competition, operating performance of facilities, environmental and safety risks, delays in obtaining or failure to obtain necessary permits and approvals from government authorities, and other development and operating risks. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, Victory Nickel disclaims any intent or

  • bligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Although

Victory Nickel believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. Victory Nickel resources are as follows: Minago: Measured: 11.1 million tonnes grading 0.56% Ni, Indicated: 43.1 million tonnes grading 0.51% Ni, Inferred: 14.6 million tonnes grading 0.53% Ni; Lynn Lake: Measured: 1.0 million tonnes grading 0.76% Ni, Indicated: 21.9 million tonnes grading 0.56% Ni, Inferred: 8.1 million tonnes grading 0.51% Ni; Mel: Indicated: 4.3 million tonnes grading 0.88% Ni, Inferred: 1.0 million tonnes grading 0.84% Ni; Lac Rocher: 0.29 million tonnes grading 1.23% Ni, Indicated: 0.51 million tonnes grading 1.05% Ni, inferred: 0.44 million tonnes grading 0.65% Ni. The mineral resources were estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves, Definitions and Guidelines prepared by the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions and adopted by CIM Council December 11, 2005.

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